The Wadi’s Events Guide for Israel, 5 July, 2010

in News by Gal Mor — July 5, 2010 at 3:32 pm | 1 comment

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This is The Wadi’s first events guide post covering upcoming events for the tech community in Israel. We will be publishing the event guide on a monthly basis. You can import individual events in the Events Guide into Google Calendar using the link beneath each entry, or download the entire schedule as an iCal file (which is importable into Google Calendar, Outlook, Windows Live Calendar, etc.)

Know about interesting upcoming events? Please update us.

#140conf

The 140 Characters Conference will be taking place on July 6th at the Afeka College of Engineering, Tel Aviv. The #140conf events provide a platform for the worldwide twitter community: listen, connect, share and engage with each other, while collectively exploring the effects of the emerging real-time internet on business.

Participants:

Jeff Keni Pulver, founder of #140conf

Adam Fisher – Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners
Bob Rosenschein – CEO, Answers.com
Danny Cohen – General Partner, Gemini Israel Fund
Jacob Ner David – Partner, Jerusalem Capital
Tal Yaniv – co-founder, All of Me
Lt. Aliza Landes – Head of the New Media Desk, Foreign Press Branch IDF Spokesperson’s Unit
Daria Shualy – founder, Sense of Fashion
Taly Weiss – CEO and Founder, TrendsSpotting.com Market Research
Oded Sharon – CEO of Corbomite Games
Uri Marchand – CEO, Overwolf
Yossi Matias – Managing Director, Israel R&D Center, Google
Yael Elish – Founder of esnips
Dror Ceder – CEO and Co-Founder, Wibiya

And many more.

Samsung bada developers day

Samsung bada developers day will be held on July 8 at Exodia, Tel-Aviv.

Samsung bada is a new UI framework that supports the next generation of Samsung touch UI. The main UI delivers simplicity and ease, without decreasing usage efficiency. The UI framework introduces an open-end evolutionary innovation on top of the current touch UI which will leverage  user experiences.

The bada Developer Day will be held in more than 25 countries and present the perfect opportunity for developers to learn more about the Samsung bada platform. At the same time, they can also refer their questions directly to bada’s technical teams.

Read more and register.

Startup Weekend Tel Aviv

Startup weekend Tel Aviv will be held on the 14-16th of July at The Peres Center for Peace’s facility, 132 Kedem Street, Jaffa.

Startup Weekend provides a platform for team building, learning, and life changes for its attendees and their communities. Some companies go on to produce revenue or get seed stage funding. One thing is guaranteed-  people will leave with more experiences, insight, knowledge, friends, and resources than they came with.

Startup Weekend has been introduced so far  to over 15,000 entrepreneurs in more than 100 cities around the world. Founded in June 2007, Startup Weekend provides a platform to pitch an idea, build the concept and present it to the audience in around 50 hours. At least 500 companies have been created over the lifetime of the worldwide event raising more than $2M in financing.

The upcoming Startup Weekend will be held in The Peres Center for Peace’s facility.Startup Weekend attendees are made up from the width and breadth of the startup and entrepreneurial community – from mobile and server developers to technical writers and lawyers, and even investors. The audience consists of individuals who have a burning idea and are looking to put it into code, as well as those who are looking for team members to join their project and would like to “test the waters”.

Read more and register.

TechAviv Founders Club – July 2010 Meetup

The TechAviv Founders Club will be held at IDC Herzliya, Economics Building, Room E201, Kanfei Nesharim St., Herzliya.

Part of the global TechAviv family, the TechAviv Founders Club is an invitation-only group of Israeli hi-tech startup founders and investors that meet monthly to showcase, discuss and help fellow Israeli startups. Each month three startups get 5 minutes to demo their products, followed by bi-directional Q&A with the group. Casual networking happens before and after the demos. This group is limited exclusively to hi-tech startup founders and investors. Our mission is to help Israeli entrepreneurs succeed worldwide by sharing our collective experience and contacts. Together we’re creating a global support system for young Israeli startups.

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